“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

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

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

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

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

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

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