Youth has no age.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
You mustn’t expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn’t interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
There’s nothing more difficult than a line.
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
I do not seek. I find.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
It’s always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further...
You can’t run a without taking risks.
For me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.