I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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.