It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
I want to die painting.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
I wish to die painting.
I have sworn to die painting.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
