To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

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.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

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

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.