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.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

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

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.