I will not live without love.

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?

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?