One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.