Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!.

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

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

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you..

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the establishe….

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else..

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later tha….

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must stea….

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme..

There's nothing more difficult than a line..

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With m….

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun..

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats..

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

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..

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

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future..

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist.….

I don't work from nature, I work like nature..

Sex and art are the same thing..

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