“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

Conscience is a man’s compass.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

What is done in love is done well.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

The only thing to do is to go one’s own way, to try one’s best, to make the thing live.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

If one hasn’t a horse, one is one’s own horse.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Masked, I advance.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

The word ‘arrested,’ this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.