The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

The sight of stars makes me dream.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

You have first to experience what you want to express.