I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.