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.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

There is peace even in the storm