"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 don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things"

"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"

"He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are"

"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"