"I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture."

"It's a trade I learned as a youth… when I was unhappy… Perhaps flowers are the reason why I am an artist."

"I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics."

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat… I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of the air in which these objects are locate…"

"I'm still unable to work. I'm afraid I'll never be able to paint again."