I don't say everything, but I paint everything..

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future..

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning..

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats..

I don't develop; I am..

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With m….

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during ….

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must stea….

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily ….

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future..

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun..

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later tha….

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint..

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you..

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And t….

I paint what I think, not what I see..

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modele….

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion..

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working..

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities..