A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

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