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.

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

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

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.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.