"Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless."

"I want to paint like I see the world, not like the world wants to be seen."