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

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

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?

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.