An artist is an explorer.
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.