To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

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.

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.