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.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

When I haven't any blue I use red.