I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

With love I draw what I hate.

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

True friends celebrate your success and share your grief!

Everything existed at God’s command.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.