Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

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.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.