When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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.
In the end there is only Matisse.
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.