There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.