Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

You can't run a without taking risks.

It took me a lifetime.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.