I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?