To work from nature is to improvise.

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.

A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone’s assistance, advice and prompts

I have this beast. He comes and goes at will.Silence.He's very powerful.Silence.He has control over me.Silence.I want to come and go at will.Silence.I want to be the powerful one.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

Worry is perhaps the most useless emotion

Cancer is finite. God is way bigger.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.