The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.