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 don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

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

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

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.

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.