A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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