When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

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.

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

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.