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

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burnin...”

“Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

“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”

“My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than th...”

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”

“To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours, their blending and their contrast, the mysterious vibrations of related tones. To express the thought of a bro...”