Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.