If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

One can never study nature too much and too hard

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.