“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”

The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.

I do not believe in my death.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.

Forever will be you and me.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.