To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.
Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
I don’t know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Sex and art are the same thing.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
It takes a long time to become young.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
Basically the French are all peasants.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.