 To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. |
| I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. |
| It takes a long time to become young. |
| God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. |
| Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? |
| Give me a museum and I'll fill it. |
| I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. |
| Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |
| Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. |
| To draw you must close your eyes and sing. |
| It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. |
| I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. |
| Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. |
| We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. |
| Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? |
| If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. |
| Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? |
| Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. |
| You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. |
| The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. |
