I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.