When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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.
Bila semangat anda menurun, lakukanlah sesuatu. Kalau anda telah melakukan sesuatu keadaan tidak berubah, lakukanlah sesuatu yang berbeda.
Ancaman terbesar bagi keberhasilan hidup kita bukan berasal dari menggantungkan cita-cita setinggi langit hingga tak mampu mencapainya secara penuh; namun berasal dari pematokan cita-cita terlalu datar hingga mudah mencapainya.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.