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

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

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities..

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

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality..

In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cub….

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

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who ha….

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, th….

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues..

No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a q….

Lord, protect me from what I want!.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever..

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid..

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is..

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has under….

To be young, really young, takes a very long time..

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….

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….

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with informati….