Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

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.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.