“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

When I haven’t any blue I use red.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse, but surely you will see the wildness!

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.

Art is a leap into the dark.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Sex and art are the same thing.

We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.

We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it’s okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.