If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.