All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

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

Youth has no age.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

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

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'