Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.