An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.