Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is drive...
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
The sadness will last forever.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
There is safety in the very heart of danger.
You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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.
I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.