The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Love is something eternal.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.