Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

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