What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.