When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

In art, practice always comes before theory.