“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”

“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”

“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”

“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”

“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.”