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 prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

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

What you have to do is break all the rules.

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

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

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