"When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever."

"You say you think of savings all the time but you cannot seem to manage to,' and he suggests it will do the children good to go without."

"These palm trees [in Bordighera, Italy] are driving me crazy; and also the motifs are extremely difficult to render, to put down on canvas; everywhere is so lush."

"More than ever despite my poor sight, I need to paint and paint unceasingly."

"Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule."