Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

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