"You cannot teach painting because everyone's colour sense is different. But drawing..you either get it right or wrong…"

"I've a one track mind, sir. Poverty and gloom. Never a joyous picture of mine you'll see.Always gloom. I never do a j…"

"I don't care tuppence for what they do in London in the art world. It doesn't matter to me. I don't think of it. All …"

"An artist can't produce great art unless he has a philosophy.He can't say something unlee he has something to say."

"A street is not a street without people..the composition was incidental to the people."

"I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see"

"I look upon human beings as automatons..because they all think they can do what they want but they can't.They are not…"

"You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings"

"I see lots of people everywhere, one lot going one way and the other lot going in the opposite way, as a rule."

"Without knowing what it was, I had an instinctive feeling that the time had come to drop industrials (paintings) .Now…"