There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

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.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

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.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'