The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.