You have to first experience what you want to express

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.