A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.