The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.