I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

What we need is endless courage.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.