Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

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

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.