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.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

Drawing is the root of everything.