The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
The sunflower is mine, in a way.
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
Someday death will take us to another star.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
You have to first experience what you want to express
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
The sadness will last forever.
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