“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.”

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.

Art is a leap into the dark.