Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

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

It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.