Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

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

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.