What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

You win, not by defeating others, but by performing better than before.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.