What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.