How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

I'll start with small things.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.