“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success. ”
“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
“If I don’t have red, I use blue.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
“Don’t waste your youth growing up.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.”
“All Children are Artists.”
“Paradise is to love many things with a passion.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Youth has no age.”
“Lord, protect me from what I want!”
“There are more copies than originals among people.”
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”
“I am exhausted if I don’t work.”
“Sex and art are the same thing.”
“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.”
“We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”
“When I haven’t any blue I use red.”
“Computers are stupid.”
“People who read are people who dream.”
“We have learned nothing.”
“I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.”
“While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.”
“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn’t tell you.”
“When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
“If it’s good, it’s mine. If it’s bad, it’s a fake.”
“You don’t make art, you find it.”
“I don’t develop; I am.”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.”
“If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?”
“Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink any more.”
“Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?”
“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
“When you’re really young, you’re young for life.”
“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.”
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“Basically the French are all peasants.”
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.”
“Everything exists in limited quantity – especially happiness.”
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”
“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”
“Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.”
“I draw like other people bite their nails.”
“This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“The path to youth takes a lifetime.”
“In art, practice always comes before theory.”
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
“For a long time I limited myself to one colour – as a form of discipline.”
“In the end there is only Matisse.”
“I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.”
“For me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.”
“A picture lives by its legend – not by anything else.”
“You can’t run a without taking risks.”
“There’s nothing more difficult than a line.”
“It’s a poor artist who borrows – a good artist steals.”
“I have had no true friends, only lovers.”
“It’s not what the artist does that counts; it’s what he is.”
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”
“Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!”
“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”
“We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.”
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“I want to know one thing, what is color?”
“I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.”
“If I could say this I wouldn’t have to paint.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.”
“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.”
“If there is something to steal, I steal it.”
“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”
“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”
“To be young, really young, takes a very long time.”
“Why assume that to look is to see?”
“Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.”
“The earth doesn’t have a housekeeper to do the dusting.”
“To model an object is to possess it.”
“Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
“I imitate everyone except myself.”
“One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“The more technique there is, the less there is.”
“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
“I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.”
“If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.”
“Art isn’t done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.”
“A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.”
“Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.”
“There’s no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.”
“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.”
“If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.”
“When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.”
“The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.”
“They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”
“We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”
“For my part, I can’t do anything else but what I am doing.”
“The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”
“Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.”
“When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.”
“Only when painting isn’t painting can there be an affront to modesty.”
“Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.”