Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

The sight of stars makes me dream.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

... life is too short to do the whole.