One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.