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

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.