Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

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

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

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

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'