Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

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

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.