And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

I'll start with small things.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

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.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.