A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.