"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

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

"I want to paint humanity, humanity and nothing else."

"I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our colouring."