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

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.