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

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

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

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.

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.