“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”

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.

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.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.