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.'

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

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

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

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

What a horrible thing yellow is.