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

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.