You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.