To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
