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

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

The sight of stars makes me dream.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.