"To the best of my knowledge, those words mean 'I seek, I pursue, my heart is in it.'"

"Well, well, after all there are so many painters who are cracked in one way or another that little by little I shall be reconciled to it. I understand..."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly."

"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."