Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.