“The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

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.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.