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.'

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

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