What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.