Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

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.'

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.