More of me comes out when I improvise.

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.

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.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I’m hurting I can push through anything

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.