Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.