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.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Action is the fundamental key to success.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.