... life is too short to do the whole.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.