But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

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.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Drawing is the root of everything.

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.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.