Paintings Have A Life Of Their Own

Man Is Not On The Earth Solely For His Own Happiness. He Is There To Realize Great Things For Humanity.

I Sometimes Think There Is Nothing So Delightful As Drawing.

Only When I Fall Do I Get Up Again.

But I Must Work On In Full Calmness And Serenity... The World Concerns Me Only In So Far As I Feel A Certain Debt And Duty Towards It, Because I Have Walked On The Earth For Thirty Years, And Out Of Gratitude Want To Leave Some Souvenir In The Shape Of Drawings Or Pictures, Not Made To Please A Certain Tendency In Art, But To Express A Sincere Human Feeling. So This Work Is The Aim-and Through Concentration Upon That One Idea, Everything One Does Is Simplified. Now The Work Goes Slowly-a Reason The More To Lose No Time.

Here Everything Is So Wholly What I Consider Beautiful. In Other Words, There Is Peace Here.