An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.