"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

"I want to paint the air in which the bridge, house or boat exists. The beauty of the air where they are. Yet it is nothing short of impossible."

"I'm completely exhausted. I can't paint another stroke."

"I am going to send you some more canvases, but I don't know what to do with them. They are all different and I don't know which one to choose."

"I often think I am very stupid, but when I look at what others are doing, I think I am a genius."