I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.