In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.