...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.