If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.