I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.