It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.