"I am a wanderer, always searching for something I cannot find."

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?"

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."

"The strange light illuminated all those night-time meetings that took place in every imaginable sort of café; the lips mouthing defiant words, heedless of restraint or consequence, often overbearing a…"

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."