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

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

I'll start with small things.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

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