I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

You have to first experience what you want to express

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.