When you're really young, you're young for life.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

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 is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.