Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

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

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.