Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

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

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

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...

To find is the thing.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars — it’s a luxury I can’t afford.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the...

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

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.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

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.

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.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child

You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

The artist is a receptacle for the 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.

If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a soldier, I would ultimately become the General, but because I wanted to become a painter, i...

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

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.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Youth has no age.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

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

What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is...

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the...

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter...

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.

I’d like to live like a poor man-only with lots of money.