It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.