I don't know if I've got close enough [in two recent paintings he made] to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.

Short quotes, 2 November 1970; p. 81 - Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)