The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.