Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth..

There's nothing more difficult than a line..

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness..

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else..

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one..

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately..

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes..

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

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion..

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art..

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing..

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from….

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?.

Good artists copy, great artists steal..

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction..

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I hav….

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else..

When you're really young, you're young for life..

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world..

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age....