Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.