I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.

Strenght without agility is a mere mass.

I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore - excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint t…

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.