There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

It took me a lifetime.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.