Bad artists copy. Good artists steal..

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working..

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays..

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning..

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has under….

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

I paint what I think, not what I see..

I don't develop; I am..

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modele….

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead..

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And t….

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth..

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world..

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty..

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a ye….

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

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during ….

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint..

I hate it when people pilfer my things..