All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.