All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

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.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.