I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.