If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.