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

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

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

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

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

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.

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.