Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
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.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
Art is a leap into the dark.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.