I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.