My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.