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

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse, but surely you will see the wildness!

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.

Art is a leap into the dark.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

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.

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

The weak-minded always look for safe spaces to hide.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

Our weaknesses, insecurities, fears and self-doubt make all of us want to hide.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.