Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.