It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

I don't seek, I find.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.