Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.