Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

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

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.