All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

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

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

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