Paradise is to love many things with a passion..

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..

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades..

One must act in painting as in life, directly..

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, wit….

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a paint….

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great an….

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting..

Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose t….

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons..

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the c….

You don't make art, you find it.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion..

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflic….

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals..

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious..

In the end there is only Matisse..

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody..

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure….

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to ….

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is….