I don't seek, I find.

Basically the French are all peasants.

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

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

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.