The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.