Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

You can't run a without taking risks.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

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.

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.