There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

There is no self-portrait of me.