Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.