If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
I want to die painting.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
If I think, everything is lost.
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.