It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

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.

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.