He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

I paint in order not to cry.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.