And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
We have learned nothing.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
