Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

Look around you… There! Yes, there!! There's what you need to succeed.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

I am totally unattached to material items.