"I'm completely blind, everything is black. I can't paint anymore."

"It's a trade I learned as a youth… when I was unhappy… Perhaps flowers are the reason why I am an artist."

"I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no."

"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."

"I'm absolutely miserable. I hate everything."