Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.