I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.