What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
I never get tired of the blue sky.
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.