Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

It's a wonder we don't dissolve in our own bath water.

My object is to show what I have found, not what I am looking for.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

The artist is a receptacle for 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 web. That is why we must not discriminate between things.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good taste."

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might just as well be twenty.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Art and nature, being two different things, cannot be the same.