“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.-- unsourced, suspected false quotation”

“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”

“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow ”

“They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.”

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

“The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.”