A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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

Sex and art are the same thing.

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.