If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

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

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.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

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.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

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.