It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.