The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.