“Without hard work, talent is not enough - Henri Matisse”

“Nothing can be accomplished without love. ”

“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illumination the fog that surround”

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”

“...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”

“I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.”