That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

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

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

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.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.