Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.