One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

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.

Don't just aim, Shoot!Don't just talk, Do!Don't just walk, Move!Don't just hope, Act!Don’t just follow, Lead!Don’t just dream, Live!Don’t just exist, Love!

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.