"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"And, curiously, he felt that he was something, somebody, precisely and simply because of that cold threat of death. The terror of the white world had left no doubt in him about his worth; in fact, tha…"

"Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like."

"About staying in the south, even if it's more expensive — Look, we love Japanese painting, we've experienced its influence — all the Impressionists have that in common — and we wouldn't go to Japan, i…"

"What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw."