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

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.