Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

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.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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.