In trees, I see expression and soul

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

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 heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.