Love is a decision. Not always an easy one.
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is. . . unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
My father loved people, children and pets.
I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish. . . the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.
When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.