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

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”