To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

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

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.