It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

It is good to love many things

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.