“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

“I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”

“Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.”

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

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

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