Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

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

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.