Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

To improve is to change.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.