To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

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

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.