Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.