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

You don't make art, you find it

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.