I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I’d like to live as a poor man, with lots of money.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It takes a very long time to become young.

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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