Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

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

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

Drawing is the root of everything.