The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Conscience is a man's compass.

It is good to love many things

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.