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.

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

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

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

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Sex and art are the same thing.