A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

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

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.