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

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

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.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.