I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

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

Yellow is capable of charming God.

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

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.