We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

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