If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

Pintar un cuadro es o muy sencillo o imposible.

To see deep difficulty braved is at any time, for the really addicted artist, to feel almost even as a pang the beautiful incentive, and to feel it verily in s…

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't m…