As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on the edge of town.

I love jewelry because, no matter how much weight I gain or lose, it always fits.Sorry I'm not notable person, but this quote got a lot of "Likes" on Facebook.

Just when you meet someone and you're a certain type of person - it's easy to be around, and you're fun to be around.

Most right-wing person I know!

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.