A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.