I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

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.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.