“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

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.

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.

The only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less

They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up, and go and think of better things.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain – he is inspired by it.

Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.

Action will destroy your procrastination.