For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline..

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks….

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich..

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war..

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is onl….

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do n….

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding..

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty..

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following th….

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from….

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy..

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it….

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality..

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know t….

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy..

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I..

I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraord….