In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.