Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.