I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

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.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.