When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it