"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

"I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something."

"So don't study and swot too much, because that makes for sterility. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don't take art or love too seriously either — one can do little about it oneself…"

"I am a tool in the hands of nature."

"I have a terrible need for — dare I say the word — for religion. So I go outside at night to paint the stars, and I always dream a painting like that."