I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.