Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
Forever will be you and me.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!