Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - but at least two or three decades.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.