"I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters"

“Throughout time painting has alternately been put to the service of the Church, the State, arms, individual patronage, scientific phenomena, anecdote and decoration … all the marvelous works that have been painted, whatever the sources of inspiration, still live for us because of absolute qualities they possess in common. The creative force and the expressiveness of painting reside materially in the colour and texture of pigments, in the possibilities of form invention and organisation, and in the flat plane on which these elements are brought into play.”

“All critics should be assassinated.”

“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”

“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.”

“A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.”

“unconcerned but not indifferent”