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

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

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.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

The dream is over only when you have become complacent.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

Talk is cheap, action is expensive.

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.