"What moulting is to birds, the time when they change their feathers, that's adversity or misfortune, hard times, for us human beings. Instead of giving way to despair, I took the way of active melanch…"

"I don't want to consider it a misfortune that it's turned out this way, on the contrary, despite all the emotion I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we…"

"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."

"I am looking for the impossible. That is why I am always searching for it."

"Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no—just let me be myself—and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship."