
Painting Is Just Another Way Of Keeping A Diary.
I'd Like To Live As A Poor Man With Lots Of Money.
If All The Ways I Have Been Along Were Marked On A Map And Joined Up With A Line, It Might Represent A Minotaur.
Painting Is A Blind Man's Profession. He Paints Not What He Sees, But What He Feels, What He Tells Himself About What He Has Seen.
I Don't Believe In Accidents. There Are Only Encounters In History. There Are No Accidents.
It Is Your Work In Life That Is The Ultimate Seduction.
Art Washes Away From The Soul The Dust Of Everyday Life.
I Am Always Doing That Which I Cannot Do, In Order That I May Learn How To Do It.
Love Is The Greatest Refreshment In Life.
One Does A Whole Painting For One Peach And People Think Just The Opposite - That Particular Peach Is But A Detail.
One Must Act In Painting As In Life, Directly.
I Do Not Seek. I Find.
I Have A Horror Of People Who Speak About The Beautiful. What Is The Beautiful? One Must Speak Of Problems In Painting!
You Mustn't Always Believe What I Say. Questions Tempt You To Tell Lies, Particularly When There Is No Answer.
What Might Be Taken For A Precocious Genius Is The Genius Of Childhood. When The Child Grows Up, It Disappears Without A Trace. It May Happen That This Boy Will Become A Real Painter Some Day, Or Even A Great Painter. But Then He Will Have To Begin Everything Again, From Zero.
Disciples Be Damned. It's Not Interesting. It's Only The Masters That Matter. Those Who Create.
Work Is A Necessity For Man. Man Invented The Alarm Clock.
If Only We Could Pull Out Our Brain And Use Only Our Eyes.
Art Is A Lie That Makes Us Realize Truth.
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.
You Have To Have An Idea Of What You Are Going To Do, But It Should Be A Vague Idea.
Is There Anything More Dangerous Than Sympathetic Understanding?
Art Is The Lie That Enables Us To Realize The Truth.
When I Was A Child, My Mother Said To Me, 'If You Become A Soldier, You'll Be A General. If You Become A Monk, You'll End Up As The Pope.' Instead, I Became A Painter And Wound Up As Picasso.
Sculpture Is The Best Comment That A Painter Can Make On Painting.
The More Technique You Have, The Less You Have To Worry About It. The More Technique There Is, The Less There Is.
Everything Is A Miracle. It Is A Miracle That One Does Not Dissolve In One's Bath Like A Lump Of Sugar.
Every Child Is An Artist. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once We Grow Up.
Colors, Like Features, Follow The Changes Of The Emotions.