“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”

“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

“An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.”

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”

“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”

“He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”