Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.