It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I can only draw what I see.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.