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

"I'm doing my very best to put all my energy into it, for I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort — and disappointment and perseverance."

"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."

"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."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."