..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

...I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.