“Conscience is a man’s compass.”

I wish they would take me as I am.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

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.

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

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.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn’t let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.