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.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

I will not live without love.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


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.