Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.