Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

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