The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.