When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?