"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
"Youth has no age."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."