If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

You can't run a without taking risks.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

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.

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