Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.