To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

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