"The artist must possess a special faculty for vision, not a mere talent for dexterity."

"I remember our meeting at the Prado Museum and seeing you copying a large [El] Gréco placed on the right hand side of the room."

"My line is not a description of an object, it is a statement of my feelings about it."

"I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black."

"I have always been interested in the relationship between color and form."