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

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.