What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

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

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

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.