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

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

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

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

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

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.