Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
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.
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.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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.