If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme..

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense..

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's no….

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names..

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it'….

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….

It took me a lifetime..

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can ….

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning..

I do not evolve, I am..

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should..

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art..

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions..

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the….

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul..

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility..

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge..

I'm not a developer; I am..

Without great solitude no serious work is possible..

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a ye….