It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again...
I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste...
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.