Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

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

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.