I have had no true friends, only lovers.
Computers are stupid.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
For a long time I limited myself to one colour – as a form of discipline.
If there is something to steal, I steal it.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
All art is subversive.
This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.
If you’re stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
I don’t develop; I am.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.