You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

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

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

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.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.