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

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.