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

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

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

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.