Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.