When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.