When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

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

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

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.

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?

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.