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.

Action is the fundamental key to success.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

In the end there is only Matisse.

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.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.