“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

“When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.”

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“…life is not so much motion as an inventless repetition of motion.”

“The unhappiness of our life; patch up our false way of life as we will, propping it up by the aid of the sciences and arts - that life becomes feebler, sicklier, and more tormenting every year; every year the number of suicides and the avoidance of motherhood increases; every year the people of that class become feebler; every year we feel the increasing gloom of our lives. Evidently salvation is not to be found by increasing the comforts and pleasures of life, medical treatments, artificial teeth and hair, breathing exercises, massage, and so forth;…It is impossible to remedy this by any amusements, comforts, or powders - it can only be remedied by a change of life.”

“Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion... If they were fixed and static, they would be false.”

“Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”

“Hundreds of life lessons are communicated and absorbed with every broken heart. So, let it break.”

“Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.”

“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”