Light is the most important person in the picture.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.