It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

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.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.