I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.