It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.
Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.
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.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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...
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.
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.
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...