The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

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

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

I will not live without love.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.