Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

If I think, everything is lost.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.