Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

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.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.