“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”

“In art one idea is as good as another.”

“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves”

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”

“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”