“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”

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.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that’s easier said than done, but keep trying.

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.