Drawing is the root of everything.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.