I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.