“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”

“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”