What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

In trees, I see expression and soul

If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.