In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

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

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

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.