The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?