“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”

“Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.”