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

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

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.'

What a horrible thing yellow is.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.