I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

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