Conscience is a man's compass.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

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

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.