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.'

I should like to be famous and unknown.

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

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.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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