"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

"I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don't invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it readymade—but to be untangled—in the real world."

"I was seeking 'the colour of a good dusty potato, unpeeled of course'."

"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…"