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

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

To find is the thing.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.