“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

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.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water!

Taking time for your art is taking time for yourself.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.