Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

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.