Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Art is but imitation of nature.