I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.