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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.