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

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.

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 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.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

If you will be faithful to a few things, you will someday become the ruler over many things.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Without big battles, you won’t have big victories.