I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.