Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

It takes a long time to become young.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized. People just don’t have that much vision.

There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats

The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.

I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.

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.