“Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.”

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.

Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.

I do not believe in my death.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.

Forever will be you and me.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.