“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”

“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ”