I paint as if I were Rothschild.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
A puny body weakens the soul.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.
Why talk when you can paint?
I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.