Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

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.

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.