Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.