I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

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

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.