But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. 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. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.