Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

• It takes a long time to become young.
• Youth has no age.
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.