«This individual’s story […] is very fascinating and to recount it, in that it is the story of a life intensely suffered and expressed, will necessarily affect us and provide us with moments of poetry, adventure, enlightenment and invention […] However […] it would be a distraction to talk about him before having spoken about his work as a painter. This is also because his commitment to painting is the same as that to life and only his paintings contain the whole, true and direct charge of his existence.» 
