But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

The sadness will last forever.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

Love is something eternal.