Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

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.

It is good to love many things

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.