The Cypresses Are Always Occupying My Thoughts.

I Am Seeking, I Am Striving, I Am In It With All My Heart.

It Is Not Only By One's Impulses That One Achieves Greatness, But Also By Patiently Filing Away The Steel Wall That Separates What One Feels From What One Is Capable Of Doing.

But For One's Health As You Say, It Is Very Necessary To Work In The Garden And See The Flowers Growing.

One May Have A Blazing Hearth In One's Soul, And Yet No One Ever Comes To Sit By It.

Accurate Drawing, Accurate Colour, Is Perhaps Not The Essential Thing To Aim At, Because The Reflection Of Reality In A Mirror, If It Could Be Caught, Colour And All, Would Not Be A Picture At All, No More Than A Photograph.