An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

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

My curves are not crazy.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.