"I was flattered by your two letters, as I have the deepest admiration for Japanese art and a great liking for the Japanese people […]. It is with the greatest pleasure that I received your pretty prin…"

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

"I am in despair. I am working like a madman, but I am not making any progress."

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat… I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of the air in which these objects are locate…"

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