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

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.