What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

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.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

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

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.