...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

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

... life is too short to do the whole.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]