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.'

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

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

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

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

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.