“There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.”

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.”

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”