“It takes a long time to become young.”

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.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

When I haven’t any blue I use red.

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

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

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.

If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It is either easy or impossible.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.