How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.