My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.