Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.