To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
Conscience is a man's compass.
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.