I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.