To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

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