One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

The more you love, the more you suffer.

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.

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.