I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]