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

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

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

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.