Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

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.

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.