When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.