I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.