The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.