It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.