It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

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

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. 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. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.