“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Age only matters when one is aging.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.

Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.

We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.

Big risks open doors to big dreams. 

There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.

To every door that closed on me: I am coming back to buy the building.

The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, “It’s too loud!”

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.