It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.