How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, _x000D_ but as a succession of small things linked together.

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.