 But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. |
| Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. |
| Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. |
| There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. |
| If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? |
| Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. |
| An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. |
| In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. |
| One must work and dare if one really wants to live. |
| 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. |
| Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. |
| It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. |
| The best way to know God is to love many things. |
| I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. |
| 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. |
| What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Topics: Courage |
| One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. |
| I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. |
| I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. |
| For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. |
