The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Love is on the move like a picture of a statue. I should know, because I painfully painted it.