Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature as his true good being lost everything becomes his good.

To become an able and successful man in any profession three things are necessary nature study and practice.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape my real world.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh let's put that sentence there let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.