An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
It's the best fifth place I've ever had.
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
