One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well one has at the...
Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy...
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one...
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go...
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden but he certainly must...
If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The more I think about it the more I realize there is nothing more artistic...
The way to know life is to love many things.
Love many things for therein lies the true strength and whosoever loves...
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult but in fighting the...
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes....
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste...
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave...
There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one ever comes to warm...
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I...
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
I am still far from being what I want to be but with God's help I shall...
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is...
American poetry like American painting is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
