Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

I will be sof brief, I have already finished.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!