"It is evident that in order to make good artists it is necessary that they not eat too well."

"I remember our meeting at the Prado Museum and seeing you copying a large [El] Gréco placed on the right hand side of the room."

"I have always been interested in the relationship between color and form."

"Seek the essential, but do not necessarily destroy the ornament."

"When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky."