The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.