One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.