Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.