"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait"

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint"

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"

"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right"

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously"

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not"

"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence"