Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must com….

The future must enter you long before it happens..

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be….

And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another w….

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alo….

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure….

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important..

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it..

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being..

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way..

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like ….

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for wha….

The only journey is the one within..

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie..

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what..

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary..

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting tr….

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Be….

I implore those who love me to love my solitude..