If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

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.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

Conscience is a man's compass.