God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

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.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.