Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you