Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.