To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

The real subject of every painting is light.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

I can only draw what I see.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.