"No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet."

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

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

"My life has been nothing but a failure, and all that's left for me to do is to destroy my paintings before I disappear."

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