You don't make art, you find it

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

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

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.