Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance..

All Children are Artists.

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the pict….

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its fin….

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure….

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is..

Everything we can dream can be real..

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reprod….

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart.

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

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to ….

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the o….

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only….

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the c….

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflic….

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

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, wit….

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint..

All art is subversive..

In art, practice always comes before theory..

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans..