"I'm completely overwhelmed. I can't handle it anymore."

"For a month I have been unable to paint because I lack the colours. That's not important. Right now it's my wife's life in jeopardy that terrifies me. It is unbearable to see her suffer."

"What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence."

"The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment."

"I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no."