“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

“Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”

“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”