An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.