Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Art is the highest form of hope.