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.'

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

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

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

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.