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

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

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

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.