I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

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

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.