In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.