Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

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


It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

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

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.