I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

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.

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.