Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.