I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?