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

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

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

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

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.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.