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

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

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

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

It took me a lifetime.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.