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

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

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

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

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.