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

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

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

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.