One can never study nature too much and too hard

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.