"I hardly have a head for writing, but I feel a great emptiness in no longer being at all up to date with what Gauguin, you and others are doing. But I really must have patience...."

"You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

"I want to live in a world where there are no problems."

"For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly."