"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

"My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal …"

"I also don't think that it would be a hindrance if my health let me down on occasion."

"One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with."

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