Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

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.