“If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends.”

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill.

I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Someday death will take us to another star.

There is peace even in the storm

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

You’ve got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

The purpose of life is to find out ‘Who am I?’, ‘Why am I here?’ and ‘Where am I going?’

I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.

You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it’s just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.