“Sex and art are the same thing.”

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

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Ideas come from everything.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.