Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.