I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

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.'

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.