I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Conscience is a man's compass.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
