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

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

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

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

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.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.