Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise.
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 the sun.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand... People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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.
