“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.”

“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”

“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”

“Ancora Imparo(Yet I am learning)”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”

“So now, from this mad passionWhich made me take art for an idol and a kingI have learnt the burden of error that it boreAnd what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the timeThat I was given for reflecting upon God.”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”