The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.