Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

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

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

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.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!