But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

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.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.