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

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

I can only draw what I see.

Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.

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.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

In order to create a new era full of peace and hope, we will do our utmost to solve various issues facing the world together with the international community.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

It is necessary to create hope for tomorrow for farmers and businesses.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.