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

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

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

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

“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”

“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.”