You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I draw like other people bite their nails.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.