Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.