A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.