Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.