The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.