"Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

"I am a peasant, and I paint peasants."

"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

"I am looking for the impossible. That is why I am always searching for it."

"It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either."