One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.