There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

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.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.