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

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The sadness will last forever.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The more you love, the more you suffer.

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 was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The Happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.