The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
我们能体验到的最美丽的东西是神秘的。
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
当你为了美而欺骗的那一刻,你就知道你是个艺术家。
I’m not a portrait painter. I’m interested in the life behind the person.
我不是肖像画家。我对人背后的生活感兴趣。
I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
我其实没有工作室。我在人们的阁楼、田野、地下室到处游荡,任何吸引我的地方。
The challenge is to express the most with the least.
挑战在于用最少的东西表达最多的内容。
I’m not trying to be different. To me, it’s the only way I know how to paint.
我不是想与众不同。对我来说,这是我唯一知道的绘画方式。
The human figure is the most important thing to me.
人体对我来说是最重要的东西。
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
我只知道,我画画是因为我需要,我画任何经过我脑海的东西,不考虑其他。
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.
艺术家是一个容器,容纳来自四面八方的情感:来自天空,来自大地,来自一张纸片,来自一个经过的形状,来自蜘蛛网。
What you have to do is break all the rules.
你必须做的是打破所有规则。