The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

The great artist is the simplifier.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.