Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Do not become the slave of your model.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.