Exactitude is not truth.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

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

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.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.