This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

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

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.