An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.