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

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

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 nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.