I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.