One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
I want to die painting.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.