Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.