In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

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

We take death to reach a star

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.