I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

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.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.