For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

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.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.