There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
It is good to 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 well done.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their...
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lam...