Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.