When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewis….

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it..

When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I liv….

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation..

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do s….

There are more copies than originals among people..

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we ca….

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake..

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's no….

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility..

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one..

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself..

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!.

Everything we can dream can be real..

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pi….

Art is a leap into the dark..