What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if...

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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.