Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In….

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….

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his hear….

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur..

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

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer..

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working..

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

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

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..

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us..

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn..

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary..

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents..

Lord, protect me from what I want!.

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

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without ….

I do not seek. I find..

I want to know one thing, what is color?.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during ….