Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.