If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

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 right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.