Quotes about Empathy

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, "I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others." These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

The more you love, the more you suffer

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

money can be repaid, but not kindness such as yours.

I thought I would be understood without words

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.