Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.