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.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

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

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

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

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.