The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.


Letters to Émile Bernard (ed. 1938)


The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however...

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however...

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however...

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however...