If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work