Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.