“Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.”

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The more you love, the more you suffer.

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.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

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.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we’re all just trying to pass the courses.

Mars is to Earth, as Terminus was to Trantor.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.