It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
The way to know life is to love many things.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to r...
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as...
In would rather die of passion than of boredom.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.