“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”

“Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.”