Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day.

… painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Just to paint is great fun … Try it if you have not done so – before you die.

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so to get to the bottom of the subject.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

The painting he gave Truman in 1951 was a view of Marrakech (painted c 1948), and bears remarkable similarities to the one he painted during the War and gave to Roosevelt...

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