I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.