God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.

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

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

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