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'll start with small things.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

One can never study nature too much and too hard

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.