The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.