You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.