I never get tired of the blue sky.

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

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

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.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.