I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

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

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.