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

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.