Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

I want to know one thing, what is color?

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

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

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.