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.

I wish they would take me as I am.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again