Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
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.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
