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Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.