"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"
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"
"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought"
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"
"Action is the foundational key to all success"
"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist"
"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"
"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"
"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved"
"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"
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen"
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success"
"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not"
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
