We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, th….

I don't say everything, but I paint everything..

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid..

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues..

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, a….

I want to know one thing, what is color?.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima..

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily ….

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it'….

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In….

To be young, really young, takes a very long time..

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur..

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality..

In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cub….

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922..

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized..

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order..

Painting is a jeu d'esprit..

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art..

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who ha….

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting..