Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.