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.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

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.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.