How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me. - Paula Modersohn-Becker

..to have all colors deeper, more intense; |I| get quite angry at this lightness..

Please let your 'hot-blooded iconoclasm' slumber a bit longer, and for a while permit me simply to be your Madonna. It's meant to be for your own good, do you believe that? Keep your mind on art, our gracious muse, dear. Let us both plan to paint all this week. And then early Saturday I shall come to you.

My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose. Marvelous, these gleaming white breasts in her fiery red blouse. The whole thing is so grand in its shape and color..