And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Do not become the slave of your model.

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.