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.

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

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.

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

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

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

(Art is) the residue of vision.