"I've a one track mind, sir. Poverty and gloom. Never a joyous picture of mine you'll see.Always gloom. I never do a jolly picture."

“Without knowing what it was, I had an instinctive feeling that the time had come to drop industrials .Now I feel more strongly than ever that the figures stand on their own two feet.”

“I look upon human beings as automatons..because they all think they can do what they want but they can't.They are not free.No one is”

“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”

“You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings”

“I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see”

“You cannot teach painting because everyone's colour sense is different. But drawing..you either get it right or wrong. You can tell whether people have drawn from life from their pictures.”