Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Art is an experience, not an object.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.