It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Making progress is like miners' work: it doesn't advance as quickly as one should like, and also as others expect; but faced with such a task, patience and faithfulness are essential. In fact, I don't think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much, one would get dazed or confused.

It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (an…

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far …

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

I hope it won't take long.

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish't were done. Not till the hou…