If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

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.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life