We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

I don't seek, I find.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

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.