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

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

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.

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

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun