Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.