Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.