I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.