To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.