I must have flowers, always, and always.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.