But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

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