“Art demands constant observation.”

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.

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

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.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

All art is knowing when to stop.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.