Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

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

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.