Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

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


Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life