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

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

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

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

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.