To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.