Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!