Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at 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.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.