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

"I hardly have a head for writing, but I feel a great emptiness in no longer being at all up to date with what Gauguin, you and others are doing. But I really must have patience...."

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."