“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

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

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Drawing is the root of everything.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

The great artist is the simplifier.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Art demands constant observation.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.