I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.