Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.