What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.