“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.”

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.

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.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Pop art is about liking things.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art is what you can get away with.