Everything you can imagine is real.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

I do not seek. I find.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

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.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.