Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?