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

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I don't seek, I find.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.