Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
It takes a very long time to become young.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
