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

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

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

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

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.