If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

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.