“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.”

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.