It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.