"When I painted, I was a master. I felt that I dominated him, who dominated me."

"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."

"I build a kind of wall between myself and the model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."

"My art is a diary of my life."

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."