Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

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

I can only draw what I see.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

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.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.