I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.