The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.