I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

I will not live without love.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.