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Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing ... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.