“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.”

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.

I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

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

I never draw except with brush and paint.

The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.

The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.

One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

Live your dream or leave your dream. The choice is yours.

My healing isn’t a choice to abandon others, it’s a choice to no longer abandon myself.

Pain is inevitable. To Live in pain is a choice.

Never regret the choices you made. We all have a different mindset in a different situation.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Your choices will define you; so make them the right ones.

Hate is a choice you make when you keep your ego on top of everything in your life.

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men.