"So don't study and swot too much, because that makes for sterility. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don't take art or love too seriously either — one can do little about it oneself…"

"I want to be a man of action."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

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