Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.