Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

What batters you becomes your strength.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.