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

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

... life is too short to do the whole.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.