I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.