Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation