There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.