Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Basically the French are all peasants.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.