Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

It is good to love many things

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.