"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to stay in the south and to experience the color which must be carried to the uttermost- it is not far to Africa."

"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."

"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."