I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.