"I would like to spit on the grave of Picasso."

"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coheren…"

"I have invented nothing. I have merely revealed what was already there."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future."