You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.