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.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.