For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

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