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.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.