It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.