You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea..

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reprod….

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as s….

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greek….

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression..

All Children are Artists.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only..

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't ….

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans..

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone..

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm..

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me,….

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to..

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in t….

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy..

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it..

People who read are people who dream..

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved..

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence..