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

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

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

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

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Inside I’m dying. Outside I’m smiling.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying’s as natural as living. The man who’s too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.