I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

I am always doing what I can't do yet to learn how to do it.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Critique by creating.

To touch is to give life.

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole man.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.