Painting demands an intelligent model.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

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

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

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

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.