It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the ne….

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place..

I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull..

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail..

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn mon….

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy..

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only….

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance..

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not….

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its fin….

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all ou….

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one..

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpe….

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the o….

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters..

I am exhausted if I don't work..

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an….

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them..

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 th….

Youth has no age..

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself..