I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money..

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else..

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future..

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things..

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat..

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist ….

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

People who read are people who dream..

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of actio….

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, n….

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

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an i….

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for ….

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax..

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

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead..

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them..

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

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of arti….

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

Computers are stupid..