When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us..

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wron….

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false..

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child..

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good..

I am exhausted if I don't work..

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is..

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him..

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

I have had no true friends, only lovers..

Give me a museum and I'll fill it..

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more..

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is..

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance..

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in chan….

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all..

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can ….

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will….

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on o….

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all..

He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometim….