“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”

“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”

“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”

“It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.”