But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

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.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

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.

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