I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.