Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.