You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

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.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.