You don't make art, you find it.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth..

Painting is a jeu d'esprit..

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great an….

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth aga….

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn mon….

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..

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

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….

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not..

If you can imagine it...it is real.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen..

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea..

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place..

In the end there is only Matisse..