“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”

“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

“I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.”

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

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”