If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

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

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.