There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.