Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants. A note written on the back of one of his sketchbooks. See Cubism . Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Painting is a blind man's profession.
He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. See Dada , photography , readymade , and Surrealism . The painting has a life of its own. Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life.