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.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.