But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

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

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".