"I'm absolutely exhausted. I need a break."

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it."

"I am a man who can only paint, and I have never been able to do anything else."

"I'm having a very bad time just now; everything is going wrong, and I'm very much afraid I shall have to give it all up."