Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

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.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.