When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

My curves are not crazy.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

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.