A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.