Quotes

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'

What is done in love is done well.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

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

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.