An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

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

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

All critics should be assassinated.

I have never painted a recent picture.