To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

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

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.