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.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.