The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.