I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.