Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness..

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….

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….

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I too….

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

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats..

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….

Art is lies that tell the truth..

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art..

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness..

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

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me..

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different..

Lord, protect me from what I want!.

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….

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an i….

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge..

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….

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them..

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them..

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape,….