We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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.

Action is the fundamental key to success.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.