I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.