If I don't have red, I use blue.

Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.