In spite of everything, I shall rise again
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.