I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?