“There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.”

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Sex and art are the same thing.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Age only matters when one is aging.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Invest in good things, it will return you happiness.

I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.

People who spread happiness in your bad days are worthy of your good days.

In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

The heaviness of world can often feel like we’re living in black and white, sometimes all we need is a splash of color to remind us of the good in life.

Knowledge wins over ignorance. What about being happy? You naturally see what’s wrong first than to appreciate good things.