Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .