"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coheren…"

"The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is …"

"Tradition brings something original, but we mustn't forget that is also drags along a lot of dust. The penalty for taking over habits is to find one self a prisoner of false academicism and ossified v…"

"I adore my wife. She is a genius. She is a saint. She is a monster."

"If I die, I won't completely die."