So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

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!'

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.