The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.